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Communist Manifesto EssayThe Communist Manifesto is a short publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was published in 1848. Karl Marx is known as one of the most influential thinkers and writers of modern times. The Communist Manifesto lays down Marx’s theories on communism. The purpose of the Manifesto was to establish communism in Europe, which it failed at doing so, but his ideas still exist. Marx’s man focused was on the utopian working classes on how to find ways to improve society. This essay will mainly focus on the working classes discussed in the Karl Marx’s writings and his proposals of communism. One of Marx’s main ideas was that all of history until now is the story of a series of class struggles.

In the first section of the Communist Manifesto Marx’s discusses bourgeoisie and proletariat. “The first social class the authors discuss is the bourgeoisie society. The bourgeoisie was the social order that was dominated by the wealthier class. In the Manifesto Marx,” states that the modern bourgeoisie was the product of several revolutions in the mode of production and of exchange. He also states,” that the development of the bourgeoisie began in the earliest towns, and gained momentum with the Age of Exploration” (Engels and Marx, section 1). Because of the developments during the Industrial Revolution, the bourgeoisie became the most powerful class, and pushed classes, such as the proletariat class into border line poverty.

The second class that Marx’s discussed was the proletariat, as the bourgeoisie developed, so did the proletariat. The proletariat class was the modern working class of society. It was a class of laborers. Marx stated that the “Proletarians lived as long as they found work and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital” (Engels and Marx, section 1). Also he believed that proletarians would eventually over power the bourgeoisie society. Also the Proletarians were a...

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